Whatever happened to Duckface? - Telegraph TV and Radio Whatever happened to Duckface? Famous for being jilted twice by Hugh Grant, Anna Chancellor’s star part in 'The Hour' may just lay her romcom role to rest. 'I’m comfortable around madness’: Anna Chancellor, star of 'The Hour’ Photo: MARTIN POPE Comments "Righty-ho, I’m off to interview Anna Chancellor,” I announce to nobody in particular. The silence is deafening. “Anna Chancellor,” I repeat. “You know, from Spooks? Kavanagh QC? Tipping the Velvet? Caroline Bingley in Pride and Prejudice? Now appearing as an intrepid foreign correspondent in The Hour, Britain’s stylish and amazing answer to Mad Men, set in a 1956 BBC newsroom?” Nothing. “All right then: Duckface. I’m meeting Duckface.” “Duckface? Why didn’t you say? Oh, poor Duckface!” cries my husband, although I know for a fact that Four Weddings and a Funeral hasn’t been repeated on Film Four for, oh, at least 36 hours.

Yet his sympathy (for a character in a Richard Curtis romcom made 15 years ago) remains curiously undiminished. Duckface, you will remember, was Hugh Grant’s weepy ex-girlfriend Henrietta, whom he dumped, then took up with again, only to jilt her at the altar. “Colin Firth, who has an Italian wife, told me that in Italy the translation of the film has me called Arse-face and in Hungary I’m Horse-cheek,” she observes merrily, clearly amused. Related Articles Harry Potter magic at box office 18 Jul 2011 Everyone seems to forget that she eventually hooked up with a much more suitable guardsman, but such is the power of the big screen that Chancellor – despite prime-time telly, modern classics at the National Theatre and two stints on Broadway – remains forever trapped in the amber of public consciousness as poor Duckface. “I don’t mind Duckface. It would be churlish to mind a part that effectively launched my career and made me such a rarity in this business – a working actor,” says Chancellor. “And I love ducks.

Someone once looked at me very intently when we met and said, slightly disappointed, that I didn’t look anything like a mallard in real life.” Indeed she does not. Chancellor is 46, but then (and I hope she will forgive me for saying so) she looked 46 a decade ago and almost certainly will for another 20. Handsome, self-possessed and blessed with full-bodied, well-bred hair that dutifully stays where it’s put, she is wearing a wonderful vintage polka-dot and lace dress. A clutch of statement rings on her fingers lends her an air of boho chic rebellion, an impression that only deepens as she talks; about the benign neglect of a frayed aristo upbringing in their stepfather’s marvellous old pile, where muddy gun dogs wandered through the house and the family’s two macaws would dive-bomb visitors. Bliss! Chancellor is marvellously pedigreed.

The daughter of the Honourable Mary Alice Joliffe (daughter of William Joliffe, 4th Baron Hylton), she is a great great granddaughter of former prime minister Herbert Asquith and, on her father’s side, a great great granddaughter of the 12th Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham, and so a descendant of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. There’s more: distantly related to Helena Bonham Carter, her great aunt was Jane Austen and her second cousin six times removed was Lord Byron. Throw in a link to Mary Boleyn and her edition of Who Do You Think You Are? would have to be flogged as a boxed set. “We were posh, but very much on the fringes,” she says. “We had the lineage but not the big house to go with it. My father left when I was a year old and my stepfather very generously took us four children in when he married my mother. For that reason, I’ve always been drawn to outsiders.” This might explain why she fell pregnant to cult punk poet Jock Scott, 13 years her senior, forcing her to drop out of drama school.

The “apparent disaster” turned into the pure delight that is her 23-year-old daughter, Poppy. “Poppy’s father was best friends with Shane McGowan from The Pogues, so the whole situation wasn’t looking good. We ended up in a basement flat, living off Fray Bentos pies and smoking a lot of Piccadilly cigarettes,” she says. “But he was clever and we really liked each other. My sister, who lived above us, would complain about how we talked late into the night.” Her mothering skills, she concedes, were extraordinary lax. “It was chaotic – lots of love, no rules but huge fun. I would end up with all the children in the road dancing on the kitchen table to loud music, with Poppy complaining bitterly that I was being too nice to everyone else. Then my sister would come down the next day and we’d all still be asleep at lunchtime.” Poppy attended a state school, but when she was 10, Chancellor realised with horror that her daughter could neither read nor write. She was packed her off to boarding school – for three weeks.

Then she fetched her home again, as streetwise Poppy immediately fell ill (possibly in protest) and spent every day languishing in the infirmary. “I sent her to the Harrodian School in south-west London after that. She probably wouldn’t get in now, but they took any little freak in those days and she ended up hard-working and clever and after studying illustration at university is now at The Prince’s Drawing School. “So despite being a terrible parent, it’s all turned out well, although maybe if she was lying in a gutter with a needle in her arm, rather than sketching in the Louvre, I might not be saying that,” she says matter-of-factly. “After Poppy was born, I didn’t work for years. I remember somebody I knew spotted me in the car and flagged me down to ask: 'Have you got a job yet?’ and from the back Poppy’s four-year-old voice piped up, “She’s never going to get a f---ing job!’ ” Chancellor, “bold and brave” on stage, was less confident off it. Her free spirit, moreover, was often regarded with opprobrium.

“I hated it when people would call me daffy because I’d left my purse in a shop five times in one day,” she says. “I’m not academic – like Princess Diana, I left school with two O-levels – and I think it’s true that many actors aren’t very cerebral, perhaps because there’s so much about human nature that you can’t analyse, so you need to rely on gut instinct to guide you.” A job in rep at Pitlochry Festival Theatre in Scotland eventually came up, where she played a court stenographer for six months in Witness for the Prosecution without a single line. Next, a TV role as space navigation student Mercedes Page in the 1990s sci-fi soap Jupiter Moon, broadcast on BSB. Four years later, via roles in Poirot and Inspector Morse, came Duckface. Since then she has married twice; firstly, a cameraman, but after four years they divorced. Then she began a relationship with Redha Debbah, the Algerian-born minicab driver who would take her to work in the West End. He is now a computer engineer.

They married last October, after 13 years, and are “completely in love” and don’t live a remotely showbizzy lifestyle. Of Hugh Grant, who most certainly does and who so memorably wronged her twice in Four Weddings, she is tellingly elliptical: “Our paths don’t cross very often. I think he might like rich people a lot and I live in Acton. But Hugh is very funny and odd and I like odd people. I feel very comfortable around madness.” Talking of which, the comparisons between The Hour and Mad Men, in terms of the styling and period detail, have burdened – or perhaps blessed – the new series, which begins tonight with a huge weight of expectation. “Is anything ever the new anything else?” asks Chancellor. “The writer, Abi Morgan, has managed to weave together a dramatic love affair with politics, the Suez crisis and the invention of a radical new form of reporting, which makes it very different from Mad Men, apart maybe from the frocks.” Chancellor plays intrepid reporter Lix, a hard-living Martha Gellhorn, who lives in her office and has great one-liners, which suits Chancellor’s own deadpan style.

“I think The Hour is great, classy television and I hope people like it,” she says. She will also be on our screens again shortly in a new BBC Three sitcom, Pram Face, in which she plays the wife of Angus Deayton and mother of teenager Laura, who gets pregnant by her boyfriend. The role she currently yearns to play is Rebekah Brooks, the fallen Valkyrie of News International, with her defiantly untamed mane of russet hair and steely resolve. “I’m obsessed by her. She doesn’t fit the mould of a female powerbroker and it would be fabulous to explore the complexities of her character – a scriptwriter would have made her all sleek and corporate, but she’s not. Her rise to the top and her current trajectory would be amazing to portray.” Could Chancellor pull off this modern-day Boudicca, at the heart of the firestorm, clinging on, wild-eyed before tumbling dramatically from the turrets into the flames? You know, I think she could – and if she ever does, she will certainly lay poor Duckface to rest for ever.

Anna Chancellor: Free Spirit - Mirror Online Anna Chancellor TV Anna Chancellor: Free Spirit Still recognised as Hugh Grant’s jilted fiancée, ‘Duckface’, from Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bafta-nominated actress Anna Chancellor is a true character – on and off screen. Meet her here Share Get celebs updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email "I’ve always been a dreamer,” says actress Anna Chancellor. “I went to a convent school when I was quite young and failed miserably – I was bad at everything! "I was always very interested and clever but could never get my head around that form of learning with getting things down on paper and writing essays – my homework would come back and it would just be a series of red marks. "But I was always in the school plays, and that’s where I flourished. "With acting, you’re told what to say but the choice of how you play it is yours and I found the structure of that very relieving. "I was incredibly lucky that I found acting – otherwise, I could have felt that I was an underachiever. “I remember when I came to London at 16.

I tried to go to a sixth-form college and my report said, ‘Anna Who’, because I was never there. "I was very badly behaved and earned a living as a naked artist’s model when I should have been at school. I got my place at LAMDA [the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art] when I was 18 and can remember thinking that this was going to be the cutting-edge life – that everyone at drama school was going to be very radical and political – but I was surprised by how obedient people were. "Then I had my baby, Poppy, at 21 and it looked like it was all going to go disastrously wrong. “I was unemployed for years. In fact, any success I’ve had, I’ve received with amazement, as have my whole family – but I feel I should tell people that it is possible to earn a living doing something that you love. "When you’re on stage, there is a sort of alchemy that happens between you and an audience and that’s an incredible thing to experience. "The bottom line is how good the script is: if it’s good, it doesn’t matter what form you do it in, the story takes over and it becomes beyond you.

“I’ve always been a character actress: the dominatrix, the stalker, the nutter... I think it’s a bit more fun, although sometimes it’s quite narrow, the view that people [have of] the romantic heroine. "They never make films about ordinary people being in love – everyone has to be really beautiful, and I wonder why we can’t make that mental leap. “The part I’m playing at the moment, I love! It’s for the BBC [drama] Mapp and Lucia, and I play Lucia, a terrible, dominating phoney who comes head to head with Miranda Richardson. "You want the drama within a character, for them to be a bit extreme, so they’re funny but sad, generous but maybe mean to themselves – that’s what you’re looking for. “I have played a lot of amazing parts and I’ve had some great names, too. With Four Weddings and a Funeral, I didn’t realise that Duckface was my official character name. "When I die, my obituary will probably be, ‘Duckface dies’. What can I say about that – do I mind?

No, I think it would be churlish to bite the hand that feeds you and, coincidentally, I’ve always had a passion for ducks.” Did you know we have a Facebook TV and Film page? Come and tell us what you’ll be watching at Like us on Facebook The Jane Austen Film Club: Anna Chancellor- Actor of the Week The Jane Austen Film Club Oh, to be in England... Saturday, June 23, 2012 Anna Chancellor- Actor of the Week Anna Chancellor Forever Duckface, Anna Chancellor is probably best known as the woman Hugh Grant's character almost marries in Four Weddings and a Funeral. Anna Chancellor and Hugh Grant in Four Weddings and a Funeral Henrietta could not have been played by anyone else. Anna Chancellor is at her best in Four Weddings and a Funeral. Charles: Perhaps we should've got married. Henrietta: No! I'd have had to marry your friends, and I'm not sure I could take Fiona. Charles: Fiona loves you. Henrietta: Fiona calls me Duckface. Charles: Well, I never heard that.

Anna Chancellor as Miss Bingley in P&P As the catty and desperate Miss Bingley in Pride and Prejudice 1995 , Anna Chancellor is just what Jane Austen would have wanted. There is some wonderful irony in the fact that Jane Austen is her eight times great-aunt. She was born to play Miss Bingley. Miss Bingley: I believe I can guess your thoughts at this moment. Mr. Darcy: I should imagine not. Miss Bingley: You are thinking how insupportable it would be to spend many evenings in such tedious company. Mr. Darcy: No, indeed, my mind was more agreeably engaged. I've been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow. Miss Bingley: And may one dare ask whose the eyes that inspire these reflections? Mr. Darcy: Miss Elizabeth Bennet's. Miss Bingley: Miss Elizabeth Bennet. I am all astonishment. Anna Chancellor with Amanda Bynes and Kelly Preston in What a Girl Wants As if it isn't bad enough to lose Colin Firth in Pride and Prejudice , she loses him again in What a Girl Wants .

One might think there was some typecasting going on here! Glynnis Payne: I know my daddy was naughty, but what about me? Anna Chancellor as Questular Rontok in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy As Vice President of the Galaxy Questular Rontok in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , she tries unsuccessfully to hide her love for Zaphod Beeblebrox. Poor Anna, she can't even land a guy with two heads and three arms! Questular Rontok: [about Trillian] She's lying. She's skinny, and she's pretty, and she's lying! Anna Chancellor as Juliet Shaw with Peter Firth as Harry Pearce in Spooks As ruthless right-wing Juliet Shaw in Spooks (MI5) we get to see Anna as a real ball buster. Juliet versus Ros is something to behold. Fortysomething with Hugh Laurie, Anna Chancellor and Benedict Cumberbatch One of the reasons I still love writing this blog after 2 years (other than the fact that I have some of the best readers & commenters on the internet) is that together we discover some unknown gems of film or television.

Fortysomething is a 6 episode TV series from 2003 starring Anna Chancellor as the sexy wife of Hugh Laurie, a slightly befuddled medical doctor. Sort the opposite of Dr. House if you can imagine. Benedict Cumberbatch plays the eldest of 3 rather horny male offspring in this hilariously dysfunctional abode. If you want to give it a whirl, the first episode is on YouTube here . I am afraid I will be watching this all weekend now!!! Anna Chancellor as Lix Storm in The Hour The Hour is a behind the scenes drama about a Cold-War era investigative news program in England. I am dying to see this one, so someone who has already watched it, please tell us all how you liked it! Anna Chancellor, Ben Whishaw, Romola Garai, Domenic Cooper, Tim Piggot-Smith, Juliet Stevenson...I am drooling at the thought! Well, I certainly do appreciate the talent of Anna Chancellor in her many varied roles. I also liked her in the girly film Crush and in the recently released Hysteria . She is always fun to watch. Which are your faves of hers?

Posted by Jenny Allworthy at 9:24 AM Four Weddings And A Funeral cast 20 years on - seven marriages, four divorces, 17 kids and one funeral - Mirror Online TV Four Weddings And A Funeral cast 20 years on - seven marriages, four divorces, 17 kids and one funeral The Sunday Mirror catches up with the people who brought you one of the most successful and best loved British films of all time Share Get celebs updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email It's the film that turned Hugh Grant into a worldwide heartthrob as charming-but-awkward hapless hero Charles. And nobody can forget Four Weddings And a Funeral’s theme song – Wet Wet Wet’s Love Is All Around – which spent 15 weeks at the top of the charts. Incredibly, when the movie was first released in 1994 its director Mike Newell was convinced it would flop – just like the fringe of its leading man. The cast was largely unheard of, the budget was miniscule and the plot was causing concern with marketing teams across the pond.

Producer Duncan Kenworthy reveals: “I remember getting a memo from America saying, ‘only girls like weddings and no one likes funerals’.” But the film became a global box-office smash. At the time, it was the most successful British film ever made – taking £200million worldwide and winning five BAFTAs as well as an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. It made household names of the cast and also introduced the world to Elizabeth Hurley when she wore “that dress” to the premiere. The film followed a group of upper-middle-class friends as they bumbled and boozed their way through the nuptials of their pals while Charles sought love with glam-yet-unattainable American Carrie. Quite how this simple premise would prove to be such a hit, no one could have guessed. But years later the film continues to delight viewers. Its enduring appeal is ­undoubtedly down to the chemistry and charm of its cast. Twenty years, seven marriages, four divorces, 17 kids (including love children) and one funeral on... we revisit the stars of the hit romcom.

Fringe benefits: Hugh Grant in the film, and now (Photo: Getty) Hugh Grant (Charles) THEN : Hugh had been in various obscure German and Spanish films and a handful of American TV mini-series. Screenwriter Richard Curtis said that at first he thought him too good looking for the part of Charles. But it ­catapulted Hugh, now 53, to stardom – as well as his partner at the time, ­Elizabeth Hurley, now 48, after she turned up to the London premiere in that safety-pin dress. NOW : Although Hugh has never married, he has three children – a daughter and son with Chinese actress Tinglan Hong and another son with Swedish TV producer Anna Eberstein. Since Four Weddings, he has starred in a string of romantic comedies, including Notting Hill and Love Actually.

He has said: “Part of what was ridiculous about my previous acting incarnation was that it was mainly serious.” And of Four Weddings, he added: “It changed my life for the better.” French connection: Kristin Scott Thomas in 2013 (Photo: Getty) Kristin Scott-Thomas (Fiona) THEN : She almost didn’t bother auditioning for the part of Fiona because she had been rejected by the director in the past and thought he didn’t like her. Also, producers at first said they didn’t think they could afford her air fare to come to the London audition. She was married to a French doctor at the time and lived in Paris. NOW : She and her husband had three children but have since divorced. Kristin, 53, was Oscar-nominated for her role in 1996’s The English Patient. She still lives in Paris and continues to act in both French and British films to critical acclaim. However, she admitted after Four Weddings: “We did get pigeon-holed a bit afterwards.

Playing the dignified and depressed character is something I’ve been escaping from ever since.” Stage craft: Simon Callow in 2013 (Photo: Getty) Simon Callow (Gareth) THEN : He was a long-­established theatre actor before being cast as the exuberant Gareth. He was one of the first actors to come out publicly in 1984. NOW : Simon, 64 – awarded a CBE in 1999 – continues to act in film, TV and theatre. He wrote in 2008 of the depiction of homosexuality in Four Weddings explaining how a scene showing Gareth and partner Matthew in bed had been cut. “They were right to do so: viewers had come to love them individually.” Dead good: John Hannah in 2013 (Photo: Getty) John Hannah (Matthew) THEN : He was virtually unknown before being cast as “not posh” Matthew. His rendition of WH Auden’s Funeral Blues made him an overnight star. NOW : Still a success he has starred in Sliding Doors and The Mummy series. John, 51, is married to actress Joanna Roth and they have two children.

Dibley favourite: James Fleet (Photo: BBC) James Fleet (Tom) THEN : He’d had numerous TV roles before being cast as bumbling posh boy Tom, but became typecast as a “nice-but-dim” character. NOW : Married with one son, James, 60, starred in the BBC comedy The Vicar of Dibley and has since been in Citizen Khan. Established star: Andie MacDowell now and then (Photo: Getty) Andie MacDowell THEN : Already a famous American actress, she was by far the biggest star in the film in her role as Carrie. She was married to former model Paul Qualley, and they had three daughters. NOW : She continues to act, but divorced in 1999. A second marriage ended in 2004. Currently single, Andie, 55, said: “Four Weddings is the best script I’ve ever read.” Charlotte Coleman Charlotte Coleman (Scarlett) THEN : Charlotte was 25 when she was cast as the eccentric, but adorable, Scarlett. She had previously starred as a child in the TV series Worzel Gummidge.

NOW : She died suddenly in 2001 aged just 33 after an asthma attack. Work following the film was sporadic and she suffered from depression and eating disorders. She said in 2000: “I’ve learned with hindsight that I could have exploited being in Four Weddings and gone to America to promote it – but I didn’t.” Anna Chancellor (Duckface) THEN : After a few small TV roles Anna was cast as Charles’s ex-girlfriend Henrietta, known as Duckface. She has since told how she came to audition: “Someone said, ‘You really must audition because it’s about posh people f****** in the back of Land Rovers’.” NOW : She most recently starred in the BBC’s Pramface and newspaper drama The Hour. Anna, 48 has said of Four Weddings: “It gave me a job, not massive fame, a working career.” She divorced her first husband in 1998 and has one daughter by a former boyfriend. She has remarried. Richard Curtis (Writer) THEN : Before writing Four Weddings, Richard was best known for his work on comedies such as Spitting Image and Not The Nine O’Clock News.

NOW : He’s written two of Britain’s highest-grossing films — Bridget Jones’s Diary and Love Actually — and has won two BAFTAs, as well as an Oscar nomination. Richard, 57, has four children with his partner Emma Freud. 20 years... in numbers 17 re-writes Richard Curtis did on the script. One car used to pick up actors to take them to locations – they were collected one-by-one and shared a car to save on money. 35,000 - The number of pounds Hugh Grant was paid. 17,500 - what the rest of the ‘friends’ were paid. 6 weeks to film from start to finish. One international stars in the cast – Andie MacDowell was the only actor anyone had heard of outside the UK. Charles says “um” 24 times in the scene where he tells Carrie he loves her (“in the words of David Cassidy”). 1981 - the last time before Four Weddings a British movie had been a hit in the US. It was Hugh Hudson’s Chariots of Fire. 10 million dollars spent on publicity in LA alone – this was almost four times the amount spent on making the film.

13 F-bombs dropped in the first minute and a half. 15 weeks spent at number one for Wet Wet Wet’s cover of Love Is All Around (beaten only by Bryan Adams’ (Everything I Do) I Do It For You) 275,000 copies of WH Auden’s works sold following John Hannah’s rendition of WH Auden’s Funeral Blues 2.7million pounds - the total budget for the film. To cut corners, Scottish highland scenes were shot by the cinematographer’s brother while on holiday. 33 sexual partners Andie MacDowell’s character tells Hugh Grant she has had. 10 percent of audience members turned up to the film’s London premiere wearing wedding dresses, according to its producers. £7million - The amount Hugh Grant was paid for his next movie, Nine Months, alongside Julianne Moore. The film originally opened on in the US in Four cinema screens. Five - number of ex-girlfriends Charles bumps into at the second wedding Five - BAFTAs won, including Leading Actor for Hugh Grant, Best Supporting Actress for Kristin Scott Thomas, Best Director, Best Film and People’s Choice. 72 people auditioned for the role of Charles before Hugh Grant.

The Reunion: Four Weddings And A Funeral, today 11:15am BBc Radio 4 We're testing a new site: This content is coming soon Anna Chancellor - TV.com Anna Chancellor 4/27/1965, Richmond, Surrey, England, UK Birth Name EDIT Even after playing a variety of characters in dozens of films and television shows in more than 15 years, Anna Chancellor would always be remembered as Hugh Grant 's unlucky fiance, with an equally unfortunate nickname "Duckface", in the romantic dramedy Four Weddings and a Funeral.

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She is currently in Noël Coward's Private Lives at the Gielgud Theatre until September 21 ( privateliveswestend.com ). Chancellor lives in London with her husband, Redha Debbah, a computer technician, and has a daughter, Poppy, 26, an illustrator. Routine I wish I got up at 6.30am and did some stretching, meditation and a bit of writing. But what really happens is that I get up only if I have something to do, and if not then I potter about until noon. Early years I was very young when I had Poppy and she had a quite unconventional upbringing – but she thought it was a lot of fun. I was very unsuccessful for years; I didn't really have a job. I used to think I was a failure, but it turned out to be brilliant because I spent five years with Poppy. If I'd been very successful I would have probably been torn between my career and my child. The more I grow up, the more I realise you've got to appreciate the good times when you can. Sad things happen: you're going to suffer, it's going to hurt. So when it goes well, enjoy it.

Chaise longue This chaise longue was my mother's. I was born in a house in Kew, and I remember it being there. Then we moved to the West Country and my mother remarried, divorced and remarried – it's amazing that it's survived so many moves. Photo: Georgia Kuhn Life model I was a life model in my early 20s, even after Poppy was born. I was strangely very good at it, partly due to my love of lying around. I wasn't somebody who would like to lie on a beach in a bikini, but I wasn't physically at all shy – I always thought I looked better naked so I would take my clothes off quite naturally. Related Articles Inside Matt Berry's world 21 Jun 2013 Strategic viewing I do like art, but I'm not someone with a great knowledge of it. I like to go around exhibitions thinking, 'Which one would I like to have?' That for me is a way in. If I go to an exhibition I like to go to the end first – Poppy taught me this – and work my way back. That way you miss the flood of people at the start and you see the paintings in a different way.

Marathon banner Poppy made this banner [pictured] for Redha – it's got six stars for the marathons that he's run and the flag of Algeria, because that is where he was born. I get terribly anxious watching Redha running marathons – I worry that he won't see us. But this year we were at Tower Bridge and held up the banner as Redha ran past and he looked up and waved. It was so thrilling that I started crying with emotion that it had all worked. Then after the race he said he hadn't seen us, he was just waving generally. Photo: Georgia Kuhn Duckface Henrietta, my character in Four Weddings and a Funeral, was also called 'Duckface'. Although it was only said a few times on screen the nickname stuck and people still associate me with it. But also, happily, I really love ducks. My brother, Eddy, gave me a picture by Jonathan Cook about four years ago, and I think it is really very beautiful. Acting I was one of those kids that loved dressing up and putting on plays.

When I went to a convent school, where I was an educational failure, the only thing I was any good at was drama – so acting was my refuge. I still love school plays and amateur dramatics; I like makeshift, handmade things. Oldest theatre If you want to be an actress then you have to be in love with theatres. The theatre is part of the pull; it's what gets you going. So when my friend Jonathan Kent, who is directing Private Lives, went to Epidaurus in southern Greece, the site of the oldest theatre in the world, I asked him to bring me back a souvenir. He brought me this pine cone and it's thrilling to look at it and think where it came from. I love the thought that the amphitheatre was so well designed that you can hear a match being struck on stage from any seat in the house. Photo: Georgia Kuhn Gardening I'm not a knowledgeable gardener because I don't dedicate enough time to it, but I love my garden. It is incredibly generous and seems to keep on giving without me having to do much. Disco ball My three sisters and I were always dancing as children.

Now we all live very close to each other and they come over and we dance under my disco ball in the kitchen, perhaps joined by Poppy. It's one of my favourite things to do. My husband thinks we're mad. Nestling in I'm a provider. I like to cook for people, make a bed for them on the sofa and nestle them in – I'd literally breastfeed them if I could, that's my character. That's not to do with being selfless, I want my guests to get all comfy and relaxed so I can lie back and have a really good chat. I hate it when I think people will go. Even if I've just met them and they tell me they're going to Australia, I feel distraught. It's a fear of loss, of letting go. Fires I love a fire, even in the summer, in fact a summer fire's even better for me than a winter fire. In an ideal evening I would light the fire, lie on the sofa and dream. I'm a dreamer.

'Duckface' Anna Chancellor frolics on a British beach as she models M&S' | Daily Mail Online comments As the inimitable Duckface in Four Weddings And A ­Funeral, she was memorably dumped at the altar by Hugh Grant. 'When I die my obituary will probably be "Duckface dies",' admits the actress in a short film she's made with M&S in which she models one of its latest collections. However, her new role in season five of Downton Abbey might soon shake up the public's perception. We shall have to wait until September to find out if Lady Anstruther captures our imaginations in the same way as her breakthrough role in Four Weddings. Clearly keen to tap into her very British appeal, M&S has snapped the actress in the quintessential seaside town, Hastings, for its Style & Living section. Scroll down for video Actress turned fashionista: Anna Chancellor, who shot to fame as Duckface in Four Weddings, is modelling M&S' latest range.

Top, from £6.99 , Jacket, £49.50 Anna, 49, is the perfect poster girl for M&S' range of cosy knits, polka-dot blouses and tailored blazers. Clearly throwing herself into her latest venture, the actress can be seen frolicking on a British beach and even jumps into the sea in the new imagery. Down-to-earth she might be, but Anna comes from illustrious stock: she's the granddaughter of the 4th Baron Hylton, her uncle is one-time Spectator editor Andrew Chancellor and her ­sister ­Katherine was formerly ­married to acerbic writer Wilf Self. RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share Speaking about her well-connected family, she said: 'I am related to a prime minister, Herbert Asquith and Jane Austen was my great aunt, though going back eight generations. My parents came from quite an aristocratic background. But how that has affected me? It’s difficult to say. 'You are what you are aren’t you?

Genetically I suppose it has given me certain qualities but then it’s difficult to know which qualities came from whom, because of course by this stage it’s just stories - they weren’t anybody I actually knew. 'Jane Austen, I’m obviously very proud to be related to her. She was a famously good aunt, didn’t have any children herself but was very keen on her nephews and nieces so if I’m feeling a bit stressed or feeling that things aren’t going very well, I’m like "Are you looking out for me, I hope you are looking out for me." Autumn style: Anna, 49, is the perfect poster girl for the range of cosy knits, polka-dot blouses and linen blazers Anna, who stays in shape by swimming, can be seen splashing around in the sea in the new imagery 'Otherwise, maybe I was a bit rebellious about my background. Maybe I’ve embraced it on some levels - and probably a lot my acting skills and my ability with language is inherited.

'My father is very articulate and funny and probably would have made a good actor – there are quite a few hidden theatrical people in my family who weren’t actually actors but probably would have been quite good!' Speaking about her family - her parents divorced and married other partners, so she has step-siblings - she said: 'It was chaotic, we were outdoors a lot and rode a lot - very privileged but I think it was difficult at times because we were quite wild, that’s for sure. We were quite crazy. Anna went to a convent school and says she was one of those people who found learning 'very difficult.' 'I think I had learning difficulties actually, in fact, a lot of actors do find that they’re not that academic or intellectual. I often play parts where you would have had to have a very good education, a lawyer, doctor things like that - but I never could have been that in my own life. I could hardly get an o level. I was basically thick,' she said. Colourful history: Speaking about her family she said: 'It was chaotic.

We were quite crazy' Jumper, £39.50 She adds that she was 'incredibly lucky' to have found acting; otherwise she could have felt that she was an underachiever. 'I feel I should be able to tell people that it is possible, to earn a living doing something you love - it’s a great privilege and if you have that you should be very grateful.' Reminiscing on starting out as an actress at the age of 18, she explains how she 'fell into' becoming a naked artist’s model to earn a bit of money. 'I wasn’t physically shy,' she said. 'I’d turn up and they’d say "will you take your clothes off" and I’d think it was fine. I guess coming from the country side I was never self-conscious. So that was how I earned a living when I should have been at school!'. Anna had a baby, Poppy, who was the somewhat unexpected result of a romance the actress had at drama school with cult poet Jock Scott at the age of 21. She admits that everything looked like it was going to go 'tits up' and 'disastrously wrong' at the time.

Beach babe: Anna worked as a naked artist's model when she was younger as a way to make money when she first moved to London She said: 'I think one of the hardest things about having a child is who is going to look after them when you’re working. And I was lucky because my mum would take her. But when you’re acting you get up very early, you could leave for work at 5am and if you’re a single mum, which I was at times, not always, you would have to think who would take Poppy and maybe drop her off somewhere the night before. 'So it wasn’t easy for Poppy or me, she didn’t have know that mum would pick her up all time - but I was very lucky because I was very unsuccessful and very unemployed, so actually, I was around a lot!' Working mother: Anna, who had a baby when she was 21, said one of the hardest things about having a child is who is going to look after them when you're working - she was lucky to have her own mother on hand to help.

Skirt £22.50 Anna, who describes her personal style as 'scruffy', can't speak highly enough about her best friend and daughter Poppy. She said: 'I feel that it was one of life’s incredible coincidences that I happened to have a child that I love. Of course I love my child, but we just really click. 'I always found her so funny, witty, even when she was young she would say things and I’d think that’s actually really funny - you’re a genuine wit. She’s a wonderful person and we have so much in common. 'So of course you can love your child very much but find you don’t have anything in common - for either of you, but we can go to galleries and do things together - go for walks, we love animals - we’ve got a lot in common and that’s just a coincidence I think.' She also says she has been 'incredibly lucky' to have shared 16 years of her life with her husband, Algerian-born former minicab driver Redha Debbah, who is seven years her junior. 'I was mad about him,' she reminisces. 'It’s very sweet actually, very romantic and we’ve been together a long time.

We love each other. 'We lead quite separate lives, he’s busy and I’m busy - we come and go. Despite her enduring success, Anna is modest and doesn't believe that she has all the qualities of a leading lady. 'They always seem to think I’m more the dominatrix, the stalker, the nutter or the evil,' she said. Fit and fabulous: Revealing her secrets to looking good, Anna says she tries to swim every day as she's so bored of the gym. Blouse, £29.50 'I was always a character actress, I suppose. I think it’s a bit more fun – although sometimes it’s quite narrow the view that they see the heroine as.' Her most defining role has to be alongside Hugh Grant in Four Weddings, of which she laughs: 'When I was in four weddings I didn’t realise that Duckface was my name - I thought it was Henrietta so it took me ages to accept that Duckface was my actual, official name. When I die my obituary will probably be "Duckface dies". 'What can I say about that – do I mind?

No.' Revealing her secrets to looking good at almost fifty, Anna says she tries to swim every day and that she's so bored of the gym. 'I hate being told I have to do 50 of this and 20 of that, by then I’m literally praying. I become a Catholic and revert to my roots, praying to the Virgin Mary for it to end. I can’t take any more of it. I just can’t do exercise in that form, but swimming is different. 'And when I come out I can’t be bothered to get dressed so I put on my dressing gown and get in my car, or sometimes I walk back home in my towelling dressing gown and I think everyone will see Duckface and think I’m a nutter,' she said. Remember when? Anna as the inimitable Duckface in Four Weddings And A ­Funeral, where she was memorably dumped by Hugh Grant at the altar Leading roles: Anna as Miss Caroline Bingley Pride & Prejudice, left, and as Diana in BBC's The Cazalets, right

Question: What is the nickname of the character Henrietta played by Anna Chancellor in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral?
Answer: DUCKFACE